ominous (
http://definr.com/ominous)
adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a
baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone
became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent";
"sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his
threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the
situation became ugly" [syn:
baleful,
forbidding,
menacing,
minacious,
minatory,
sinister,
threatening,
ugly]
2: presaging ill-fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my
words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"-
P.B.Shelley;"a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a
by-election at a time highly unpropitious for the
Government" [syn:
ill,
inauspicious]